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einforce this meaning. The participial adjective designating OMCC1
occurs five times in initial position. Elsewhere it is implicit. Its
recurrence emphasizes the skeletal meaning of the entire poem. Since
the poet's beloved is forbidden to visit him in hospital, she would be
forbidden to touch the white bed sheets, clasp his hands, bring him
flowers or dolls, and/or read to him stories he would like to hear.
The relationship between the obligatory meaning in the opening line of
the first stanza and the subsequent array of extended meanings is
consequentially logical. The moral tension, which had piled up by the
repetition of 'mamnO1 4is relaxed in the concluding two lines:
"For, in the ward of patients disabled of heart,
Love, longing they confiscate; no secret impart."
There is no fixed rhyme scheme in the poem though some lines do rhyme
with others. For example, the first three lines rhyme with the sixth,
eighth and the tenth. The 'pigeons' and 'red rose' metaphors are
allusions to peace and love which a dedicated poet should unceasingly
promote among all mankind. Internal rhyme (3rd line), and onomatopoeia
(2nd line) augment the emotive impact of the poem. The OMCCs 1&2 in
the first and the last two lines of this stanza, the extended meaning
in the rest of the stanza, and the accessory meaning implicit in the
metaphorical use of language structures combine to form a semantic
profile of the stanza.
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